AS?THE?WORLD?BECOMES more complicated, leaders need to develop more creative skillsets.
This is according to Steve Houchin, owner and managing partner of International Leadership Associates – a Cincinnati, Ohio-based leadership education and consulting firm.
He was in Barbados last week at the invitation of Caribbean Catalyst Inc. to facilitate a two-and-a-half day Leadership Challenge workshop.
The Leadership Challenge is a behavioural model built around five practices which “help people to determine where their personal opportunities are to be more effective leaders”.“
It almost gets more appropriate and more necessary every year now because of the economic situation.
“Our world is changing. The problems we face as a country, society, hemisphere or world are getting more and more complicated.
“We need more and more creative answers to deal with some of the problems we face,” Houchin said.
The facilitator noted that the fundamentals of leadership are the same worldwide but the ways leaders of different cultures use those behaviours are contextual.
“How you apply the fundamentals has to be consistent with who you are, what you believe and who you’re leading,” he said.Caribbean
Catalyst managing director Rosalind Jackson, who co-facilitated the workshop, noted that they used a very practical approach.
“There are very definite things participants will go back to work with. They will have an action plan by the end of the workshop,” she said.
Twenty-five participants from 13 companies participated in the workshop, including three from St Lucia and one from St Thomas, United States Virgin Islands.